Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
BETTE DAVISAt 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
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The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
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It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.
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One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn’t have had a career.
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Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
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I will never be below the title.
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Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
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The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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She’s the original good time who was had by all.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
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